Re: "bitch" and other sexist insults

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 3:20 AM 6/16/96, Chris, London wrote:

>Ethnic and racist issues often get tangled up with sexist issues.
>
>It is therefore unfortunate that in protesting against Rakesh's
>post Francis Nesbitt used the phrase "fucking racist bitch"

But what about that time when the late monster, New York's Francis
"Cardinal" Spellman, convened a special mass at St Patrick's, telling his
comrades it would be a dress-down affair, and when the moment came, the
Cardinal was in his Sunday best, thereby upstaging everyone, and some
humiliated celebrant uttered under his breath, "Francis, you bitch"?

Doug

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